Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

One of Germany s famous military bands
will soon make tour of England.
In one week in New York thirty-two dry
goods clerks lost their situations because it
was ascertained that they frequented pool
rooms.
The people of Stafford, Con-, woke up
the other morning and found that some
one had painted every dog in the town a
pale pink.
A new artificial cork has been made by
POtel, German scientist, from n mixture
of glue, glycerine and tannin. 1t is elastic
imperviOus, strong and durable, and very
cheap. The mass is also applicable to other
purposes.
Many of the destructive forest fires in
California are said to be set by sheep aud
stock raisers, who, to get rid of the under
brush and make open pastures the coming
season, recklessly set fires in the midst OF
great forests.
It's proposed to make heroic statute of
Governor Shepherd out Of asphalt The
material can be had for nothing, and in the
hands of an artist is capable of very liberal
treatment. II is to Shepherd that Wash
iugton owes her asphalt streets.
1t is said that the American Cyclope-
dia" cost $500, 900 before cent was made
out of 1t. Its maps and engrayings alone
cost $ll5, 900. Contributors are all paid
at an average rate of $40 for 900 words,
but special articles command special prices,
some as high as $500.
After all the gihes and guys that have
been poured out on the COgswell fouu tain,
it is pleasant, on the abstract principle
that one likes 20 have his estimate of hu.
man nature raised, that the doctor and his
wife have given 81, OOO, 900 for the estab-
lishment of technic school, where youths
will be taught the mechanical arts gratu-
itously, in San Francisco.
A dog was thrown overheard By the
captain of an 0swego steamer, who want
ed to know how far the animal could swim.
The dog reached the shore eleven miles of
five hours after be had been thrown into
the water. Some one now suggest that the
captain be taken fifteen miles from the
shore and permitted to test his swimming
qualities.
ProspectorS are roaming about the noun
tain country of Tennessee, through which
railroads are to pass, seeking ore beds,
which can now be bought for merely NOM
inal prices Rich lead and silver ore have
been found in several localities. In one
immense cave in Putnam county five dis
tinct veins Of lead, all valuable, have been
found.
An old mailing table in the o. densburg,
N. Y, pOstofice was torn to pieces recent
ly, and between the Innings and the out
side of the shutes leading to the bags were
found sixty-seven letters that had slipped
through cracks in the table. Some of the
letters bore postmark dates showing that
they were mailed in 1873, and one con-
tanned foreign money order that the Post
Office Department made good several years
ago.
The ranch which is owned by brother
of Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins, and
about which she has written so entertain
ingly in Hdrper's Magazine, has suddenly
acquired new importance in its owners
eyes by the discovery of apparently mex
haustible salt mines only few hundred
feet from the surface. Heretofore the owner
of the ranch has been obliged to import salt
for his sheep at the rate of $40 ton. Now
he finds it at his very doors.
The North Bucks Liberal brotherhood
has begun the attempt Of cooperative
farming. Seventy-two acres belonging to
Sir Harry Verney have been leased at 19
shillings per acre, and after being cut up
into small lots, sold at auction to the mem
bers, the excess of price over 10 shillings
to 60 to the general fund. Each tenant
farms his own lot, and the cooperative
feature consists in the ownership in COM
mon Of implements, horses, barns and
thrashing floors.
A New York restaurateur remarked the
other day, in reply to q question as to the
state of business: Business is Just as good
as ever, but the receipts are small. We
have opened the set of books which were
put away several years ago. How's that ?
Well, when period of prolonged dullness
strikssthe brokers they open accounts, and
have their meals and refreshments charged.
When boom comes they pay up and the
slate is broken. How high do the accounts
run? Well. some brokers have got ND to
5000. We seldom lose the money due
u.s."